Grilled Chicken Salad
May 3rd, 2008 by Fiddledeedee
We have wild fires burning all around us here in in Bonedry, Florida. So, my thoughts have turned to barbecue. This edition of Saturday Stirrings will feature my favorite grilled chicken salad. Aptly titled “Grilled Chicken Salad.”
Because I’m obsessing over my grammar lately, would the period go before the quotation marks, or after? Since it’s not a quote, I’m unsure. As you can see, my attention span is truncated.
I just used truncated in a sentence. I’m feeling so very word-smithy right now. Of course, I did have to look it up to check the spelling and to make certain I wasn’t using profanity.
Where am I? Oh yes. Fire up the grill, or in our case, get a stick and venture out into the nature preserve. You won’t even need a salad dressing with this one, it has so much flavor.
Grilled Chicken Salad
5 T. Lemon Juice
3 T. Soy Sauce
2 Cloves Garlic, Chopped
1/8 t. Black Pepper
1 t. Dried Basil
4 Chicken Breasts (Halves)
1 Red Onion, Sliced
Light Cooking Spray
1 Lb. Mixed Salad Greens
3 Oz. Crumbled Feta Cheese
1 Med. Tomato, Cut
Whisk together thoroughly the lemon juice, soy sauce, garlic, black pepper, and basil in a large bowl and set aside.
Place the chicken on a sheet of plastic wrap spread on a work surface and cover it with a second sheet. Pound gently with a mallet. Lift the top sheet of plastic, flip the pieces of chicken over, and recover. Evenly pound the second side to a thickness of 1/4 inch. Transfer the chicken to the marinade bowl and cover. Marinate in the refrigerator for at least 30 minutes (2 hours is preferable).
Place the onion rounds in a single layer on a baking sheet and spray lightly with the vegetable oil; turn them over and spray to coat the other side. Remove the chicken from the marinade and place alongside the onion rings. Grill the onion rounds and the chicken for 5 minutes per side. Let the chicken cool a bit, them slice thinly.
Add the chicken, onion, tomato, and feta cheese to the tossed salad greens and serve.
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May 3rd, 2008 at 12:33 am
Hop on over from Bonedry Florida and meet my Armpit Recipe.
May 3rd, 2008 at 1:22 am
This is a great recipe for summer. I love recipes with grilled chicken.
May 3rd, 2008 at 3:34 am
Oh this sounds incredibly delicious. Yum! My mouth is watering and it’s 2:30am…eek! Don’t do this to me.
May 3rd, 2008 at 6:15 am
Your recipe sounds great!
May 3rd, 2008 at 7:40 am
I assume that someday the weather where I live will turn warm and I am always looking for tasty grilling recipes- and this sounds perfect!
May 3rd, 2008 at 7:48 am
My mouth is watering just reading the recipe! Gonna have to try this. Perfect for hot evenings when you want to grill instead of turning on the stove.
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:03 am
This sounds absolutely delicious, great recipe! …And the period would go before the end quotation.
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:09 am
I don’t know anything about chicken salad, but I do believe that you are right: the punctuation goes inside the quotation marks.
Now the question is, did I use that colon correctly? And should that question have been enclosed in quotation marks? lol.
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:27 am
Sounds good and healthy! Thanks for sharing.
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:31 am
Oh, this is a great recipe! Not that I’ve tried it or have even seen it before or anything, it just SOUNDS like a good one!
My husband is the griller here… I seriously wouldn’t know the first thing about it, so any recipe requiring grilling is a joint effort around here. Bring on the summer! We grill alot!
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:51 am
We are having company for Memorial Day weekend and I am so making this. Thanks!
May 3rd, 2008 at 1:06 pm
With the way my week has been, I may just wrap the chicken up securely and stomp it flat with my feet. Kill two birds with one stone.
Just sayin.
We need to talk
May 3rd, 2008 at 2:29 pm
Deedee, I’d love to put your cute little Saturday Stirrings graphic on my blog each Saturday along with my recipe, but I’m clueless as to HOW. Help!
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:01 pm
Mmmmm…. this salad sounds delightful!! I might have to give it a whirl. I really should be eating more salads (and less cookie dough).
May 5th, 2008 at 6:24 am
After. The quote isn’t the whole sentence. If the quote was the whole sentence it would be inside.
Today we’re not watching “Sesame Street”.
“A la peanut butter sandwiches.”
See?
May 6th, 2008 at 11:43 pm
Periods always go inside quotation marks–at least in the U.S. (and usually in Canada). (Tara, are you in England by any chance?)
Lori, copyeditor